James Aronson

James Aronson
Born1915
Died1988
NationalityAmerican
Alma materHarvard College, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism
OccupationJournalist

James Aronson (1915–1988) was an American journalist. He founded the National Guardian. He was a graduate of Harvard College and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

Career

Aronson, known as "Jim" to his friends,[1] worked at several publications prior to founding the National Guardian. He worked on the staffs of the Boston Evening Transcript, the New York Herald Tribune, the New York Post and The New York Times from 1946 to 1948.[citation needed]

Aronson founded the National Guardian in 1949 with John T. McManus and Cedric Belfrage.[2] It continued publishing until 1992.

Aronson also worked as a professor at Hunter College of the City University of New York. In 1981 he was invited to mainland China to teach news-writing by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Aronson was the first American to be invited to teach such classes since the Communists came to power in 1949. In China he found that the content and style were what the Maoist government wanted to change about Chinese journalism, not the purpose.

Works

  • The Press and the Cold War (1970)
  • Something to Guard: The Stormy Life of the National Guardian, 1948-1967. With Cedric Belfrage. New York: Columbia University Press, 1978.

References

  1. ^ Neville, John (26 September 1995). The Press, the Rosenbergs, and the Cold War. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 57. ISBN 978-0-275-94995-2 – via Google Books.
  2. ^ Cockburn, Alexander (17 April 1996). The Golden Age Is in Us: Journeys and Encounters. Verso. p. 176. ISBN 978-0-86091-664-2 – via Google Books.


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